International Community Organising : : Taking Power, Making Change /

International Community Organising : : Taking Power, Making Change / / Dave Beck, Rod Purcell.

As the Arab Spring continues to work through changes, the Occupy Movement is agitating for change and many are looking for alternatives in the face of global financial and political challenges, community organising offers a realistic way forward for many communities: a tried and tested way of improv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Beck, Dave,
Purcell, Rod,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures and boxes
  • About the authors
  • Introduction
  • The roots of community organising
  • The 21st-century context of community organising
  • Community organising revisited: the Industrial Areas Foundation model
  • Industrial Areas Foundation in the UK and Australia
  • The ACORN alternative
  • Slum Dwellers International and case studies
  • New models of community organising
  • Comparing and contrasting current community organising models
  • What community organising does and doesn’t achieve
  • Counter-hegemony, critical thinking and community organising
  • Endnote
  • References
  • Index

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